The Babylonian World (Routledge Worlds)

the written sources of the seventh century BC, engaged at times in alliances with the Chaldeans or the Elamites, at other times ...

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE WOMEN AND GENDER IN BABYLONIA  Laura D. Steele I n the Old Babylonian version of the Epic of Gilgamesh, Si ...

experiences, especially in cases – such as childbirth and adultery – that appear frequently because of their significance to a m ...

described as a virgin, though he is unmarried (Cooper 2002 : 103 ); thus, in accordance with Mesopotamian sexual convention more ...

Babylonian tradition (Roth 1989 : 26 – 28 ).^8 In all periods, the bride appears to have had full control over some property, in ...

not explicitly identified as wives evidently recited sexual potency incantations in order to obtain sexual pleasure from male pa ...

“not a single woman appears among the thousands of scribes, scholars, diviners, [and] astronomers... mentioned by name in Neo- a ...

these precautions did not always guarantee a safe delivery is lamented in a famous dialogue: On the day I bore fruit, how happy ...

domestic life and wifehood (cf. Bottéro 1992 : 194 – 197 ). Regarding sorceresses, we know relatively little; Old Babylonian sou ...

not your slaves.... If you are my son-in-law and I am your mother, I should be in your thoughts. Do not make me unhappy.”^18 Wid ...

as large as the population of private slaves in the Roman Empire. I will focus on slave women in private households; much more c ...

“breeding” practiced in other slaveholding societies. As in LH § 175 – 176 , slaves (usually male) also married non-slaves (usua ...

Babylonian wisdom literature disparages sexual relationships between free men and both female and male slaves, even though the l ...

The text suggests that the prohibition of Hammurabi against selling a slave woman who had borne her master’s children (LH § 146 ...

novel but largely unsupported possibility that the terhatum was paid in installments, eventually equaling the amount of the dowr ...

20 Legal texts clearly treat the unapproved rape of slave women outside the household as a violation of their owner’s rights: on ...

Dandamaev, M. ( 1984 ) Slavery in Babylonia from Nabopolassar to Alexander the Great ( 626 – 331 BC). Rev. edn. Translated by Vi ...

Lesko, B. (ed.) ( 1989 ) Women’s Earliest Records from Ancient Egypt and Western Asia. Proceedings of the Conference on Women in ...

–––– ( 1995 b) Women in Mesopotamia. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 38 ( 2 ): 123 – 144. –––– ( 2000 ) ...

PART V RELIGION  ...